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16 september 2019 20:00:44

 
111 Adding Nuance to the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale (Age and Ageing)
 


AbstractBackgroundThe Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score (CFS) is a well validated tool for assessing frailty. However, there is a paucity of data in the literature demonstrating how severity of clinical frailty correlates with adverse outcomes. This gap in the literature limits the ability of physicians, who predominantly use measures of frailty in day-to-day practice such as CFS, to fully construe the implications of increasing frailty for patients in their care.MethodsIn this prospective cohort study, patients (n=186) aged >65 years admitted for unscheduled medical care to a district general hospital, were assigned a clinical frailty score within 24 hours of admission. Patients were then followed up for 12 months and assessed in terms of mortality, discharge to institutional care, length of hospital admission, polypharmacy and re-admission rate.ResultsThis study found significant differences between frail and non-frail populations in terms of adverse patient outcomes including mortality, length of hospital admission, polypharmacy, co-morbidity and re-admission rates. Of greater importance still, this study found that increasing risk of adverse outcomes correlated with increasing CFS. For CFS


 
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